Snail's rampage begins

Hurried across Snake way, Twilight continued to run back the way she came. This is amazing, I’m this fast already in just the two weeks I spent with Zecora and I’ve already made it this far across Snake way. Don’t worry guys, I’m nearly there, just hold on, I’ll make it back in time, I promise.

*

“What power!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

A boulder had been torn out of the ground by Snail’s build up and was flung across the field and struck into Applejack and knocked over.

“Sister!” shouted Big Macintosh.

“Let me see-,” said Snail as he moved his eyes around the fighters and locked onto Big Macintosh who had his head turned away. “I think I’ll aim for you first.”

The large pony turned his head back in time to see Snail right over him and about to slam down with his right hoof. Lifted his upper left leg to stop it, Big Macintosh screamed when Snail struck his out of place and dislocated it completely.

“Brother!” cried Applejack as she pushed the boulder off her.

“You want some of me to girly?”

Applejack roared and rammed at Snail, but the unicorn moved out of the way. She then ran pass Snail, but bucked up with her hind legs and tried to kick him, but again Snail moved back. He then hammered his upper right leg into Applejack’s torso and fired her into the air. Snail next vanished and reappeared in front of Applejack and began to assault her with flurry of punches to the head and chest. The unicorn showed to take great delight in this at the way he laughed at her.

“We need to do something!” shouted Rarity. “Applejack is unable to hold her own against that brute!”

“No! You might get the other unicorn involved if we all jump in!” yelled Rainbow Dash.

“Oh, but by all means, jump in and help try save your friend. The great Trixie must warn you though, I have already scanned your rough estimation of power levels around one-thousand-five-hundred, which is pitiful to Snail’s power level of seven-thousand!”

“Thanks for the heads up, but I don’t think I asked for it!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“You heard her though! We can jump in and help!” shouted Pinkie Pie.

“Alright, Spike you ready for this. If what that snob says is true, we’re going to have to throw everything we have at that big guy.”

“Um, well.”

“I said are you in, need to know now!” Rainbow Dash nearly pressed her face against his.

“Yes-yes I’m in!”

“Good! Okay, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, jump the guy and hit him towards me, I’ll then bounce him right towards Spike and Spike you fire everything you have, no hold back, got it!”

“Right!” shouted Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

“What! Wait!” cried Spike, but the ponies had already dashed off.

Snail had finally trampled his two front hooves on top of Applejack’s head and crashed back down onto the ground. He then went to pursue her, but was surprised to find Pinkie Pie and Rarity appear right in front of him and buck their hooves right into his stomach and smashed him back into the air. Rainbow Dash then rocketed down at Snail and knocked him towards Spike who hesitated.

“Now Spike! Give him all you got!” The dragon continued to press his index fingers together and gape his mouth like an idiot. He became frightened though when he saw the large unicorn recover and look down at him. “Spike!” But still no reaction, Rainbow Dash yelled. “Feck, everyone just fire at him!”

Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash fired out beams of blasts directed after Snail. But the unicorn vanished well before any attacks were struck. The beams then instead collided with one another exploded above Spike, uselessly.

Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth for a moment before she screamed out in frustration.

“I didn’t like that, not one bit,” spoke Snail now in front of Rainbow Dash. He wiped his upper right hoof against his mouth with a slight smirk. “I’ll give you points for nearly making my lip bleed.”

“What now?” questioned Pinkie Pie.

“Rush him, that’s what!”

“A bit crude but alright,” replied Rarity.

The three closed in on Snail and surrounded him and started to attack from all directions. The unicorn though blocked and parried all their attack without the show of much effort.

As the trio fought Snail on their own, Spike had crept over to Applejack, who struggled to get back up after the beaten she got.

“Um, Applejack, you alright?”

“Oh, I’m fine Sugarcube, just lost my hat from that big thug.” Applejack staggered clumsily however.

Up in the air, Snail started to bonk them each of his opponents heads one by one and send them crash back onto the ground.

“Heh-heh, this is too easy.”

While Snail looked down on the three he put down, he failed to notice Big Macintosh appear behind him and quickly grapple behind him. He hooked his right upper hoof and got his lower half pinned around Snail.

“Hey! What are you doing! Get off me!”

“Nope!”

“Seriously!”

“Nope!”

Big Macintosh then started to glow bright red and an aura started to shine around them both.

“Brother!” hollered Applejack. “What the sam heck are you doing!”

“There’s no way we can beat this guy like this the way we’re going! I’m sorry Applejack, I love you, tell Applebloom and Granny that I love them- arrgh!”

Snail had reversed crashed into a mountain in an effort to get off Big Macintosh. The mountain crumbled after the two collided into it, but Big Macintosh remained latched on. Frustrated Snail flew through the air in an attempt to shake him off.

“Would you just get off me!”

“Nope!”

“Brother!”

Big Macintosh had completely gone to a stage where he had now gone completely red, where he called out. “Goodbye sis.” And ignited into a wide explosion that covered over both him and Snail.

In a burst of tears and screams, Applejack started wail. “No!”

“We should’ve done something,” said Pinkie Pie quietly over to Rarity.

“What could’ve we done?” questioned Rarity.

“Let’s just hope his sacrifice was for nothing,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Of course it wasn’t. Didn’t you see? Big Mac grabbed onto him and went ka-blooey against that guy,” replied Pinkie Pie.

“What makes you think going ka-blooey was enough?”

Their dispute was settled though, when they saw in disbelief, the unicorn, Snail, move through the smoke. Soon as the smoke was completely gone, it showed no scratch on him or even the slightest tear on his armour.

The ponies had been in mere flabbergasted silence until Rainbow Dash choked out. “What the, that attack did completely nothing to him.”

“I wouldn’t say completely nothing, I think that guy did a crack on my armour somewhere.”

“No!” screamed Applejack, leaked with tears. “I’ll make you regret this, mark my word.” An reddish-orange aura built up over the girl and cracks and tears in the ground began to split.

“Interesting,” said Trixie as she measured the power level build up with her scouter. “She’s reaching over two-thousand, wonder how she’s doing that?”

Her aura then formed right in front of her into the solid-shape of an large apple. Applejack then turned with her hind legs pulled back and cried. “Apple family specialty!” She then kicked the apple bucked and sent it straight at Snail. The unicorn wasn’t able to move in time and was hit by the attack full force. His face showed to be horrified when struck by it.

“Okay, that had to have gotten them this,” said Rarity.

It was hard to see though, but when the smoke blew away one last time, all the heroes were shocked again to see Snail. Although the blast had at least torn away parts of his armour and singed him in a few places, the unicorn was pretty okay and still had that grin across his face.

“For a second there, I almost thought you had me that time.”

“Impossible,” said Rainbow Dash.

“What’s with this guy?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“Tarnishing, I’m so sorry brother,” said Applejack and fell over.

“Applejack!” cried Spike and rushed to her.

“Darn it, this can’t be, we’re falling apart one by one here!” shouted Rarity.

“She’s still alright guys, but I think she’s completely knocked out!” yelled Spike back up.

“Heh, that’s good, because I can get back at her for doing this to my armour.”

“Don’t forget you still have us to deal with!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“Oh yeah, almost forgot about you lot.”

“What are we going to do, this brute’s far too strong for us,” said Rarity.

“We need Twilight,” said Pinkie Pie.

“But Twilight isn’t here yet so we’re on our own until she gets here,” snapped Rainbow Dash.

“Who is this Twilight that the great and powerful Trixie keeps hearing about, are you referring to that low-classed unicorn runt?”

“Of course we are, who else is called Twilight?” replied Rarity.

“Why is it that you keep praying for her arrival as if she’ll be able to change the course of this battle, when she was barely able to pull of defeating Dawnshade, which I will add, was insignificant to Snails power and getting rid of him was more of a relief of burdening for us.”

“Let’s just say that Twilight isn’t someone you want to underestimate,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Hm, the great and powerful Trixie would like to witness this Twilight, to see if she’s all that and worth our time. Therefore I will give her three hours, tops to arrive, if she does not, we will resume with what entertainment we already have.”

“Oh do we have to Trixie? I want to keep playing with what we already got.”

“You know how I dislike to be talked back to, you really do know that.”

“Um! Of course I do Trixie, yeah I do.” Snail gave a goofy nod back to the other unicorn. “So yeah! We’ll give you three hours, or else.”

“Thank lord,” said Rainbow Dash with a sigh. “Do any of you know, how long it’s going to take Twilight to get here?”

“I’m afraid not,” said Rarity.

“Then we’re just going to have to use this time to recuperate and think up a plan and hope Twilight comes anyway.”

*

Up on Fluttershy’s place, the two were silent as Fluttershy concentrated to watch the fight. She had been intense the whole time, she even sweated as she focused. When it got to the bit that Trixie had declared a time out, she opened her eyes again. Angel then immediately started to dab some of the sweat off with a cloth he had.

“Thank you, Angel. Right now there’s been a timeout to give Twilight more time, but I’m not sure it’ll be enough. Twilight’s still a bit away and might need more time than they’re giving her.” Angel then started to make chit noises and shake his fist at Fluttershy. “Of course, you’re right, I should have more faith in Twilight, she isn’t known to let ponies down or any other living creatures. But I’m sad to tell you that I have a bad feeling something will happen to me and Rainbow Dash during the fight. You see, the pack we made with the Orbs of harmony required us to form a life link. When one of us dies, I’m afraid the other dies as well and-.” She was then halted by the further squabbles of Angel. She smiled at him. “Yeah, I know. I’m just telling you in case things don’t work out and to prepare for the worse, sorry Angel, I’m sure Twilight won’t let us down.”

*

“Uh, what time is it now Trixie?” questioned Snail.

Trixie replied with a small growl before she snarled. “I told you five minutes ago, just because you keep asking doesn’t make this go any faster.”

“I know, I’m just impatient, I was like having fun, but now I’m just bored.”

“Just wait, you’ll be able to resume your fun again in just an hour, if not less, depending if Twilight shows up.”

Nearby the fighters were gathered around one another. Applejack was still unconscious. Everyone did what they could to support her while they tried to come up with a plan.

“Oh, what if we tell them if it’s their birthday and when they all settle down for cake, we jump them!” shouted Pinkie Pie.

“Pinkie Pie, hard for me to say this, but that plan probably would work on the big guy, but not on the girl unicorn at the very least,” replied Rarity.

“Outsmarting tricks won’t work at all so long as that other unicorn stays by. She’s right now just sitting there because she can compensate for that guy’s brains and she’s good at it. What we need is a strategy that they can’t stopped!”

“Um, Rainbow Dash,” said Spike as he walked over with his head down.

“What runt! Don’t you see the ones trying to save the world are a little busy here are devising a plan.”

“I um, I just wanted to say sorry for letting you down, I didn’t mean to, I just got scared that was all and-.”

Rainbow Dash kept her head turned away. “This isn’t a place for those who are just going to wet themselves and hold us back.”

“I know, I won’t let you down next time, I promise, I’ll pull my weight and help.”

“Are you or are you just being all talk, cause we right now don’t need any of that.”

Unable to continue to speak up, Spike started too walked away from them.

“Hold on, Spike!” shouted Rarity.

“That wasn’t very nice, Rainbow Dash,” said Pinkie Pie.

“We don’t have time to be nice, we’re here to win, that’s all that matters and I won’t have anyone here on the team that’s just going to be a hindrance.”

“Hey, dragon, where you going!” yelled Snail and paralysed Spike in fear. “Running back to your mummy!”

The baby dragon nudged around with his head down and fingers tapped. “I-I was just going-.”

“What I can’t hear you, speak up?”

“I’m trying to say-.”

“What?”

Gotten frustrated, Spike screamed up. “I said you a butt-ugly moron! That’s what!” Spike then ran behind Rainbow Dash.

“What! That wasn’t cool! You’re next you little twerp!”

Snail was further frustrated and embarrassed when her heard the sound of Trixie’s outburst laughter behind him.